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re: Do you see any Cities in Louisiana with a promising future?
Posted on 7/28/23 at 6:38 am to Tomatocantender
Posted on 7/28/23 at 6:38 am to Tomatocantender
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real commercial players come into town
Way to kill the last standing mom & pop folks.
Posted on 7/28/23 at 6:40 am to TigerWiz
Ruston may be the only real answer.
Posted on 7/28/23 at 6:44 am to Shanegolang
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Way to kill the last standing mom & pop folks.
That’s exactly why areas to the north and west of BR refuse to allow growth. They’re happy being the small towns. Texas pisses me off to no end when it comes to over development. It’s like nothing is safe. They will clear cut anything and build crappy cheap communities with shitty strips containing very few useful businesses. Usually ends up being vape shops, Mexican restaurants or empty with for lease signs in the windows for years.
You don’t want this in a place like St Francisville. It’s one of the few places left in Louisiana that truly has an authentic feel to it. A classic southern town feeling. Not that generic shite that Texas puts out.
This post was edited on 7/28/23 at 6:45 am
Posted on 7/28/23 at 7:01 am to KillTheGophers
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Ruston may be the only real answer.
Ruston is a soulless vanilla wasteland of boring cracker arse cornbread and sweat tea white people and pine trees.
Posted on 7/28/23 at 7:05 am to EF Hutton
Puhleeeze......Franco's? That's so 1980's . Try Pelican or Stone Creek. Francos is for the unsophisticated.
Posted on 7/28/23 at 7:22 am to nitwit
This is a lot of stupid crammed into one sentence. The Dixie mafia was not in Bossier City.
Posted on 7/28/23 at 7:22 am to TigerWiz
Broussard and Youngsville are blowing up… they are going to become a major economic engine for LA for decades, with the obvious spillover benefits to Lafayette you would expect.
That area is the portion of the state that Louisiana will be most proud of in the very near future.
That area is the portion of the state that Louisiana will be most proud of in the very near future.
Posted on 7/28/23 at 7:30 am to Tomatocantender
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New Roads if they ever got out of the 20th century and let some real commercial players come into town (Lowes, Home Depot el al). That corridor between them and St. Francisville would boom.
I don’t think New Roads or St Francisville wants that.
Posted on 7/28/23 at 7:34 am to funnystuff
It’s just people from New Iberia and Breaux Bridge moving to a suburb of Lafayette.
This post was edited on 7/28/23 at 7:45 am
Posted on 7/28/23 at 7:47 am to funnystuff
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Broussard and Youngsville are blowing up… they are going to become a major economic engine for LA for decades, with the obvious spillover benefits to Lafayette you would expect. That area is the portion of the state that Louisiana will be most proud of in the very near future.
Acadiana in general is a major player but it’s not #1. Louisiana is a coastal state and so much of what is done economically is based around water. There’s no water in Youngsville Broussard. It’s also just such an ugly area when you look at the terrain.
They flood over there very easily due to the terrain and the way things are built. There’s little to no building code restrictions. It’s a natural flood plain if I’m not mistaken. That’s why sugar cane grows so well there.
Posted on 7/28/23 at 8:00 am to SlowFlowPro
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I don't think there is a hope, but this is correct.
yea those are the two cities that have it. LC was on its way but was set back 5+ years with the hurricane. Lake Charles will need a good 25 year run of no hurricanes to really have a shot to be anything of note.
Lafayette isn't bad now and is a pretty damn good city for its size for the demographics it has
Northshore is nice and best area of LA imo. Lafayette is 2nd.
in the end, in LA its a demographic problem plain and simple. Between that and the education issues...there is always going to be a huge divide and disparity in income. really hard to overcome those issues.
Posted on 7/28/23 at 8:04 am to TigerWiz
Thought about this topic last night, in fact I've thought about this for decades.
Louisiana has no excuse for being like it is today.
The state is blessed with natural resources such as oil, natural gas, fertile land for agriculture (rice,sugar cane,cotton, truck vegetables) with long growing seasons, millions of acres of timber. Waterways full of fish. Hundreds of miles of navigable waterways for shipping and railroads. Located on the mouth of a major river .
One would think with all of these resources the state would be in a much favorable position than it is. What the phuck happened ?
We have one of the largest state prisons in the country and it is full of some the most violent people you would not want to meet.
Our public education system is pitiful. Graduation rates are very low. Reading comprehension is low. Skills are low. College students that graduate leave and the state a couple days after graduating. Our flagship university has about a 40 % graduation rate. The largest HBCU has an even lower graduation rate.
Any logical thinking person would step back and say 'what is going on here ? ' .
Louisiana has no excuse for being like it is today.
The state is blessed with natural resources such as oil, natural gas, fertile land for agriculture (rice,sugar cane,cotton, truck vegetables) with long growing seasons, millions of acres of timber. Waterways full of fish. Hundreds of miles of navigable waterways for shipping and railroads. Located on the mouth of a major river .
One would think with all of these resources the state would be in a much favorable position than it is. What the phuck happened ?
We have one of the largest state prisons in the country and it is full of some the most violent people you would not want to meet.
Our public education system is pitiful. Graduation rates are very low. Reading comprehension is low. Skills are low. College students that graduate leave and the state a couple days after graduating. Our flagship university has about a 40 % graduation rate. The largest HBCU has an even lower graduation rate.
Any logical thinking person would step back and say 'what is going on here ? ' .
Posted on 7/28/23 at 8:07 am to turnpiketiger
Sunshine, LA is prime for growth. I just picked a random house and it is a 22 minute journey to the Centroplex during rush hour.
It is in Iberville parish so there aren't a lot of deputies crossing the river to write little chickenshit tickets.
The government is too far away to view you as an ATM and gas is too expensive to send the road pirates over Horace, then down to Sunshine.
I guess they could ride the ferry, which is what Saint's cellmates did before breakfast.
It is in Iberville parish so there aren't a lot of deputies crossing the river to write little chickenshit tickets.
The government is too far away to view you as an ATM and gas is too expensive to send the road pirates over Horace, then down to Sunshine.
I guess they could ride the ferry, which is what Saint's cellmates did before breakfast.
Posted on 7/28/23 at 8:10 am to lsu777
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This post was edited on 3/14/24 at 10:06 am
Posted on 7/28/23 at 8:13 am to LSUballs
quote:Found the Northeeeeest graduate.
Ruston is a soulless vanilla wasteland of boring cracker arse cornbread and sweat tea white people and pine trees.
Posted on 7/28/23 at 8:19 am to funnystuff
quote:the area south of Laffy is nice, compared to da Shreveport. Lots going on down there. The road through town when 49 ends is rough as a cob though, holy shite.
Broussard and Youngsville are blowing up…
Posted on 7/28/23 at 8:30 am to Sun God
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Nope. Currently saving up to move to a suburb of Waco
Posted on 7/28/23 at 8:41 am to Tomatocantender
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New Roads if they ever got out of the 20th century and let some real commercial players come into town (Lowes, Home Depot el al). That corridor between them and St. Francisville would boom.
And by some miracle string together a series of Mayors who don't get pinched for looting the community chest. But of course that falls back on much of the electorate believing it is better to elect a corruptible idiot instead of a visionary.
"Lot of that going around in this state..."
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